Prerecorded Captioning

Family watching prerecorded travel show with closed captions in living room

Prerecorded (Offline) Captioning is the preparation of captions for recorded programming so that, at the time of air or media playback, the captions are a part of the media.

NCI’s Prerecorded Captioning 

  • NCI's closed captioning services for prerecorded national television programs were launched in 1980 in cooperation with ABC, NBC, PBS and the federal government. 

  • NCI's Offline staff is a veteran team of highly experienced personnel with a thorough understanding of captioning policies, procedures, systems, and established styles.  These include, but are not limited to:

    • Closed Captioning

    • Open Captioning

    • Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH)

    • Encoding of captions and subtitles to various media. 

  • FCC guidelines require more and more internet-based, mobile technology, and Over-The-Top (OTT) content to be captioned, and NCI continues to meet the ever-changing needs of our client base. 

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Benefits:

  • With captions, your video programming can reach a much larger audience.

  • Millions of Americans benefit from captioned programming, including one out of ten people who are deaf and hard of hearing, people learning English as a second language, children learning to read, and adults improving their language fluency.

  • Captions help people to engage with television and other media in noisy areas such as restaurants, airports, sports bars, and health and fitness clubs.

  • Web-based content, sitcoms, dramas, movies, children’s programming, music videos, and commercials are among the thousands of hours of prerecorded programming that NCI already captions each year. 

Why NCI? 

  • NCI offers the best prerecorded captioning quality and service. 

  • All NCI offline caption editors have bachelor’s degrees in English or a related field and undergo extensive training. Each possesses excellent grammar and research skills, honed over an average of 21 years of captioning experience. 

  • Our dedicated team quickly masters the nuances of your programming – such as specific style requests, character names and plot lines – to ensure consistent quality. 

  • Our human team of client services coordinators provides personalized service, taking your order and answering any questions. 

  • Our vast library of captioned programming can be reformatted at a lower cost and fast turnaround times.

  • NCI also provides offline Spanish captioning services, including bilingual captioning of English to Spanish and Spanish to English captions.

     

    What this means for you is confidence that the work will be done correctly and on time at a competitive cost, along with an increased viewing audience, whether they watch on their televisions, computers or smart phones.